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27 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
2 years ago today, #Trump walked out on #KimJongUn in Hanoi, w lunch all set on table. Greatest snub princeling-turned-deified dictator has ever faced. Trum walked away from a deal that would have enabled Kim to build more bombs undisturbed. but he also embarrassed himself by 1/ Image
saying at the presser Kim had told him that Kim didn't know about the hostage-taking, torture & unlawful killing of #OttoWarmbier, "and I will take him at his word." Otto's parents issued a statement: "We have been respectful during this summit process. Now we must speak out." 2/
"Kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son Otto. Kim and his evil regime are responsible for unimaginable cruelty and inhumanity. No excuses or lavish praise can change that."

Defending the #DPRK dictator a curious trend 3/ ghttps://tinyurl.com/fe2pk2tk
All 3 #ROK leaders who met Kim II-III gushed: "knowledgeable, brave, manly, sincere, polite, trustworthy." Yet, Kims have forged ahead nuking up & cracking down on basic freedoms, rendering the utterers of laudatory remarks objects of ridicule, esp. by the Kims themselves. 4/4

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14 Aug 20
#KCNA 8/14: #KimJongUn relieved Premier Kim Jae Ryong of #DPRK Cabinet & appointed Kim Tok Hun new premier.

Before much meaningless verbiage is spilled over the meaning of this, here's former NK diplomat @Thaeyongho on hierarchy & myth of "Military-First Politics." My tr. 1/
“Many N. Korea experts in the South assessed that in the wake of Kim Jong Il brandishing his “Military Politics” slogan during the famine of the late-1990s, power in the DPRK had shifted from the party to the military. Since Kim Jong Un came to power," 2/
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"they offered up the analysis that power had shifted back from the military to the party. Some assess who is No. 2 and No. 3 etc. in the hierarchy based on nominal rank alone. All this is an empty feast of words due to ignorance of the role of the central party." 3/
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11 Aug 20
Former #DPRK Deputy Amb to the #UK @Thaeyongho on North Korea's nuclear deceive-and-stall strategy, from his 2018 memoir (in Korean). My own translation.

"The Sept 19, 2005 Six-Party Talks joint statement is the product of the Kim Jong Il’s deceive-and-stall strategy." 1/
“There are still folks in SK who blame the US for the breakdown of the Sept 19 Joint Statement. They argue that since the U.S. did not abide by the agreement and put pressure on NK, NK had no other option than to develop nukes. But, to this date, NK has not once stopped" 2/
"its nuclear weapons development. NK’s nukes are not something that can ever be stopped by statements or agreements.” (186)

DPRK embassy in London opened in April 2003. Ri Yong Ho was the first amb. FM Kang Suk Ju to Ri as Ri departed for the UK: “Do your best to use the UK 3/
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11 Aug 20
@Thaeyongho speaks at @Heritage 9:00am EST 8/12 & @CSIS 9:00am 8/13. A thread on the ex-#DPRK diplomat's take on NK ploys & #KimJongUn's 2018 post-provocation outreach plan etc from his fabulous memoir (in Korean). All ENG tr. my own. @BruceKlingner @SueMiTerry @VictorDCha
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I. #KimIlSung's "Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" racket

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9 Jul 20
#Despotess #KimYoJong (7/10): #DPRK must not agree to another KJU-Trump summit this year bc:

1. Useful to US, useless "to us"
2. Sitting w Americans a waste of time & risks damaging the special rels b/t KJU & Trump
3. No need to grant a summit predicted by "Trash-like Bolton" 1/
"The US must be afraid it may receive the hitherto undelivered Christmas gift before the election."

Says KJU made it clear to #Trump at 6/30/19 meeting he'll never swap additional denuclearization measures Trump wants with petty sanctions relief just for rapid econ dev't
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13 Jun 20
#KimYoJong reveals her true colors. #KCNA full text:

Kim Yo Jong, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following statement on Saturday:

I fully sympathize with the statement released by the director of the 1/
United Front Department of the Central Committee of the WPK yesterday.

If the south Korean authorities have now capability and courage to carry out at once the thing they have failed to do for the past two years, why are the north-south relations still in stalemate like now? 2/
We should not lend an ear to and trust the trite language let out by them for only form's sake as they always make a fuss belatedly, nor pardon the sins committed by the betrayers and human scum.

Getting stronger day by day are the unanimous voices of all our people 3/
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Biggest story in #SouthKorea today is Lee Yong-Su, former "#ComfortWoman" who exposed Yoon Mi-Hyang, former head of the civic support group, of systematic embezzlement. This THREAD is on Yoon's husband. A tale of spies, jail term, reinstatement, blackmail. tinyurl.com/ydaclhf8
In 1993 Kim Sam-Seok (KIM), Yoon's husband, & KIM's sister were indicted for violation of SK's National Security Law; in particular, receiving cash from Hantongryeon (재일한국민주통일연합), a front for #DPRK, & transferring mil. secrets to NK during several visits to Japan. 2/
KIM reportedly received 600,000 Yen (roughly USD 6000 USD) & Ms. Kim 200,000 Yen. In July 1994, a Superior Court sentenced KIM to 4 years imprisonment. Ms Kim got 3 year suspended sentence (2 year probation with no jail term). Both defendants appealed to the Supreme Court. 3/
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